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[petunia]

Re: OC Blog message

[Coffeebean]

name

[mortality]

I'm leaning towards something ominous and vague. Like... "The Collective."

In the email Ethan replied to, I originally named Sebring, Casablanca and andh as deserving the credit (in no particular order) for solving the cipher. Maybe their prize should be creating our nom de guerre.

Re blog comment ciphers: Sebring and I batted around the idea that they might be YouTube hashes or something similar.

Ethan's evening blog recap

[noam]

Has anyone solved the solid circles/empty circle/lines at the top right of MSG1 of OC0702? It's symmetric, and like someone else said, it seems, at first glance to be morse code, but I doubt it is. Any ideas?

Why not combine Coffee's and mort's ideas into: the unCollective. Puzzle solvers get final say, of course.

[surfzoned]

I have a few more braincells. Bring on the CIPHERS!?!?!

[mortality]

Getting random, contextually appropriate YouTube videos is like getting random, contextually appropriate Bible quotes apparently.

Code Monkey? They piercing the veil to poke fun at you, Sebring?

[surfzoned]

Code monkey

[mortality]

Group Name

[surfzoned]

Why are we choosing a name?

[Coffeebean]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Why not, "Code Monkeys"?

[mortality]

of names and triangulated circles

[Coffeebean]

just shakes head yes.

[mortality]

The YouTube stuff comes from two comments posted to the 0701 Open Case blog page. There are two sets of encrypted characters. They look vaguely like the random codes YouTube uses to label their videos in the URL. We should expect videos at some point regardless because Djinn and Whitechapel are working on InQuest, an episodic documentary about modern paranormal experiences. Confirmation OOG via Visualfiction and IG via Whitechapel's news page.

We think the vertical symbols on the top right indicate phases of the moon.

Re: 0702:
I agree that "Five to three [is] the rule [?] all" definitely provides problems as is. I'm sure about "is," it appears elsewhere in appropriate context. And I'm sure that "all"" is definitely the right translation for the last three letters. A single unknown character precedes A-L-L. It can't mean "to", that is spelled out elsewhere. Maybe "in" or "on".

That last unknown symbol in the line probably doesn't mean "for" as I originally suspected. It doesn't match the use of F-O-R to spell it out at the end of the document. And the author didn't switch up between single symbol and multi-symbol representations for one word within the document. It doesn't appear elsewhere, so there isn't anything else to go on. But I can't think of another likely substitution based on English usage.

I disagree about the use of "at" before "draw" for the same reasons. Pronouns make more sense to me.

And pont puzzles the hell out of me. Pont is French for bridge...makes no sense. Occam's Razor: more likely that the author just messed up and left out an i.

I also think I'm wrong about "It" for the first three lines. I think the character means some specific object.

Thoughts on Shannon:
Ya know...I think we need to have Ethan urge her to be cautious in how she reports finding this document. She probably shouldn't admit to having decrypted it. And we should probably find out a) who had the book first (is there a sign out sheet?), b) whether anyone at the Hawthorne Group has similar handwriting, and c) whether anyone is an untidy smoker at the Hawthorne Group.

ETA: emailed about that stuff and to find out if there's a deadline for reporting the note and naming our group. Didn't provide a roster or describe us other than some have worked together before and some are new additions.

[casablanca]

Re: of names